[Plugin: EventPress] Great Plugin!

  • This plugin is simply wonderful. It is straightforward and simple to use. It also allow the admin great control on who to give access to create events by assigning certain members as Event Creators. This is a great feature because 90 pc of members will not be using this feature, only key members (unless your site is driven by events created by members, which is highly unlikely).

    The workflow and form and event creation is simple to follow and use. It also allow the event creators to export details of registrants to excel sheet, which minimises the backend work. The event creator could also specify whether registrations are automatically approved.

    Couple of things that need improvement though:

    1) You need to create a separate database for events so that it will not be co-mingled with the other bp activities and it is easier to clean up.

    2) It will be great if you create a new tab to administer registrants rather than to place it at the bottom of the “Edit” function. I didn’t see the function and assumed, at first, that it is to be managed in the dashboard backend. Actually it can be managed in the front end too.

    3) It will be great if we can change the size of the Google map. Unless I am missing something, there doesn’t seem to be such function and right now, the width too wide and the height is too short, makes it hard to view the map.

    4) It will be great if you can integrate paypal into the registration forms so that fees can be collected when members sign up for the event.

    5) It will be fantastic if you could integrate with this plugin https://www.ads-software.com/extend/plugins/invite-anyone/, so that event creators and members can send invites to non-members of the site. I am not sure if this has been integrated as I have not tested it out yet.

    6) Events for group is not a feature that I would use for now but I see that it is important for others. I know this could be pretty tricky.

    Overall, great plugin with great potential for further development. It works great now but with the above changes, I am sure this plugin will be amongst one of the most popular plugin.

    GREAT JOB! ??

    https://www.ads-software.com/extend/plugins/eventpress/

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  • Plugin Author kunalb

    (@kunalb)

    1) You need to create a separate database for events so that it will not be co-mingled with the other bp activities and it is easier to clean up.

    Hmm — using Custom Posts has given me a great advantage in terms of getting a lot of pre-coded functionality. Plus doing proper cleanup is something I’ll give an option for in one of the future versions, which will remove all traces of EventPress.

    2) It will be great if you create a new tab to administer registrants rather than to place it at the bottom of the “Edit” function. I didn’t see the function and assumed, at first, that it is to be managed in the dashboard backend. Actually it can be managed in the front end too.

    I actually plan to move that functionality to the “registered” tab itself; some additional options that will appear only when the admin is logged in.

    3) It will be great if we can change the size of the Google map. Unless I am missing something, there doesn’t seem to be such function and right now, the width too wide and the height is too short, makes it hard to view the map.

    Yeah, this needs to be rectified/needs a good config page.

    4) It will be great if you can integrate paypal into the registration forms so that fees can be collected when members sign up for the event.

    Definitely an idea I want to implement, but will take some time. I need to put in quite a few more basic features in first.

    5) It will be fantastic if you could integrate with this plugin https://www.ads-software.com/extend/plugins/invite-anyone/, so that event creators and members can send invites to non-members of the site. I am not sure if this has been integrated as I have not tested it out yet.

    I’ll check it out — I haven’t used it yet, but I’ve heard a lot about this plugin. They’re not integrated yet.

    6) Events for group is not a feature that I would use for now but I see that it is important for others. I know this could be pretty tricky.

    Also already on the road map for 1.3.

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